Easy-To-Read Word List
circumcision
Cutting off the
foreskin of the male sex organ, which
was done to every Jewish baby boy. It
was a mark of the agreement God made
with Abraham. Read Gen. 17:9–14. In
the New Testament circumcision is
sometimes used in a spiritual sense of
believers who share in the new agreement
God gave his people through Jesus.
(See, for example, Rom. 2:28; Php. 3:3;
Col. 2:11.)